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Piper Betle) and lime; that the people of Java and Bali 

 plant the first variety near their houses for the sake of 

 its fragrant flowers; but though they chew its leaves 

 instead of Pinang, it must not be supposed that it is 

 this plant from which the lozenges Gotta are com- 

 pounded, for that indeed is quite different. 



"Thus, if we may credit Rumphius, it would seem that 

 the important manufacture of gambier had no existence 

 at the commencement of the last century." 



GAULTHERIA (THE OIL)' 



GAULTHERIA (Wintergreen, Partridge Berry) 



Gaultheria (leaves). Mentioned in Secondary List of 1820, 

 same in 1828. Official in 1830, both New York and Philadelphia 

 editions, and in all later editions until 1890, when Gaultheria 

 Leaves were dropped, and Oil of Gaultheria, (official in all editions, 

 from 1820 on), remained alone. In 1910 the name "Gaultheria" 

 was dropped, being replaced by "Methyl Salicylate." 



The first record of the therapeutical use of oil of 

 gaultheria, as is often the case with valuable medicines, 

 is to be found hi empirical medicine. A proprietary 

 remedy, very popular about the beginning of this cen- 

 tury under the name "Panacea of Swaim," or "Swaim's 

 Panacea," introduced this drug. 



Gaultheria gave added impetus to "Compound Syrup 

 of Sarsaparilla," which became so popular as to force 

 itself on the attention of the profession. The Sarsa- 

 parilla Compound of the name of "Sirup Rob Anti- 

 Syphilitica" was closely associated with Swaim's Pana- 

 cea, and Ellis, 1843, after giving the formula of "Sirup 

 Rob Antisyphilitica" in his Formulary, p. 67, says: 

 "The above preparation has been asserted, by the New 

 York Medical Society, to be nearly identical with the 

 noted Panacea of Swaim." 



This article largely parallels the study of Gaultheria by the author printed in the 

 Pharmaceutical Renew, Vol. 16. No. 5. 



